How FrontlineSMS started their stationery journey

Company name

FrontlineSMS

Overview

FrontlineSMS is easy-to-use, free and open source software which turns a laptop computer and low-cost mobile phone into a two-way group messaging system. The software, a project of The kiwanja Foundation (a US-based charity), allows non-profit organisations large and small, anywhere in the world, to take advantage of increasingly available mobile technology to spread their social change message and interact with people, and, unlike other systems, it works in hard-to-reach places without the need for the Internet.

Find out more about us at FrontlineSMS.com.

Tell us a bit about who you are and the people you reach

We are often invited to conferences and engaging with new people, from the aid and development sectors, to social entrepreneurship, to technology - or all of the above - and we have to explain our project to anyone from grass-roots organisations, up to big corporations interested in becoming donors.

Requirements

We've got a developed brand, but we need someone to put it all together. We need a business card people will remember when we hand it to them which encapsulates our innovative approach yet stays professional - looks cool and interesting but remains clean and modern.

We'd prefer an Adobe Illustrator (.ai) file.

We've uploaded a free font which is similar to one of those in the style guide (Garamond - the other is Gotham). Ideally we'd prefer the official version of both fonts to be used, but you can use the below as an alternative.

UPDATE: Thanks everyone for all the hard work you've been putting in! As with all good design processes, your ideas have made us refine the brief.

We like the bold use of colours and space for many of the designs for the back of the card, so we've added an additional set of logos to give you more flexibility.

We would also be happy to drop the mail address from the cards to help de-clutter them, as our work is primarily online.